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S. G AMES. Inking Apparatus.

No. 223,832. Patented Jam 27, 1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL Gr. AMES, OF BOSTON,- MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH OF HIS RIGHT TO GREENLEAF W. STAOKPOLE, OF SAME PLACE.

INKINQ APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,832, dated January 27, 1880.

Application filed July 10, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. AMES, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ink Fountains for Printing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and efficient ink reservoir or fountain for printing-presses; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, as hereinafter more fully described and set forth.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention in position. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of same.

Let A represent the body of the ink-fountain, which ma y be any suitable size and style; but I lnwe found the rectangular form a convenient one. B is a cover for preserving the purity of the ink and preventing; it from drying up. D is an incline which forms a part of the bottom of the ink-fountain, the remainder of the bottom being formed by the roll E, the

2 5 adjustable piece F, and the inclined piece between F and the rear wall of the fountain, as shown. E is a metallic roller having a smooth and true surface, and is hung on accuratelyfittingjournals. (Not shown in the drawings.)

0 The lower edge of the incline D fits the surface of this roller very accurately. The oppo site side of this roller E is in near contact with an adjustable slide, F, the edge of this slide F being so adjusted with the surface of the roller 5 E as to admit thepassage onto the roll of the exact amount of ink required. This adjustment of the slide F may be effected by means of a screw or screws, as shown. Immediately under the incline D, and in contact with the roller E, I place a roller, G, which is made of some yielding material, so that its surface may serve better the purpose of taking ink from the metallicroller E and transferring it to the ink-distributing disk. The lower surface of this roller project-s below the ink-fountain, as shown.

In use my fountain is held by some suitable device in such relation to the ink-distributing disk that the roller G may be constantly in contact with said disk, so as to be made to revolve by the motion of said disk, the motion of the disk being also transmitted by the elastic roller G to the metallic roller E.

My fountain being so placed in respect to the ink-distributing disk that the axis of the roller G will stand radially, or nearly so, to the disk, and be situated near its periphery.

In my device the leading principle is to have, when in use, the rollerE always in surface contact with the roller G and the roller G always in surface contact with the moving set forth.

SAMUEL G. AMES.

Witnesses:

SYLvENUs WALKER, H. S. TALBOT; 

